Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-04

suring him that l would respect his
prohibition during the rest of Mr..
Georges canvass" His suspension oc-
CURED next day.
WHY lie DIDN'T GO TO ROME.
Then follows the conference during
| Georges campaign, most of which was
given in the statement of Archbishop
Corrigan. 1t includes a note from the
Archbishop enclosing the second COM
mand from Cardinal Simeoni for DR..
McGlynn to 60 to Rome, and request
from the Archbishop to be informed
definitely whether DIR. McGlynn intended
to obey the summons. In his preliminary
answer to the published statements Of
the Archbishop DR.. McGIynn complained
that his answer To this demand was gar.
bled. DR.. McGlynn gives the text re-
ply as follows, himself emitting as will
be seen some of his reasons furnished in
it for not obeying the mandate of the
Propaganda:
Most revered and dear archbishop:--I
find that shall not bo able to 90 to
Rome. There are several personai
reasons, any of which must be
sufficient. l have had reason to feel
concerned about my health for some
time and my physlciansi order me not
to undertake the journey. There follow
other reasons.) You have not told me
why am summoned to Rome. but can
gather from your telegram to the Irib.
une, that it is because l am an advocate.
of certain doctrines about the owner
ship of lands. This can
gather also from your letter just
before you procured the telegram from
Rome. You said in that letter that the
result would have been more satisfacto.
ry If in my card to the Tribane had
retracted the latter portion OF the Tri-
bune report in which had been made to
reaflirm said doctrines about land. As
l cannot go to Rome to give an
account of mys doctrine about
land ! would say that I have
made it clear in speeches, in reported in.
terviews and in published articles and
repeat here have taught and shall con-
tinue to teach in sreeches aud writings
as long as l live that land is right
fully the property of the people
in common and that the pri-
vate ownership of land is against
natural justice, no matter by what civil
or ecclesiastical law it may bs sane.
toned and would bring about Instant
ly If could such a change of law all
private property in land without one
penny of compensation to miscalled own.
ers. In the Archbishop's published
statement he gives only the latter por-
ton of this letter. beginning with the
words 'my doctrine about land" The
reader may well wonder that the Arch
bishop, while stating that l said could
not 60 to Rome, suppressed all of the
reasons which l gave for my ina
bility to 60, and also the rea-
son which l gave for reaffirming
my doctrinal position. DR.. McGlynn
concludes as follows: 'Reaffirmng
what said in my letter to the Arch.
bishop sent by the hand of Mr.. Henry
George, that in becoming priest I did
not evade the duties nor surrender the
rights of man and citizen. deny the
right of Bishop, Propaganda or Pope to
punish me for my actions as
man and citizen in the late municipal
canvass, or in other political movements.
l deny their right to eensure me or TO
punish me for my. opinions in political
economy, unless they can show that
these opinions are clearly contrary to
the teachings Of the Christian religion.
This they have not sho wn, and know
they cannot show it. l have not ap-
pealed to Rome from the Judgment of
the Archbishop, and have no de-
sire to to do SO; deny the right
of Bishop. Propaganda or Pope
TO order me to Rome. The
vow of obedience of the priest, of which
SO many absurd things have been said
within the last few weeks, is simply a
promise to obey the church authorities
in matters concerning the. priests duties
of religion. 1t was monstrons to imag.
inc that this promise had not clear and
well defined limitations. My obligation
taken as student of the Propaganda
was not as some seem 10 inn
agine, to go wherever and
do whatever that institution should see
fit to command, but simply to return to
my native place and there devote my
self to the ministry of religion. In an
interview published in the World during
the late municipal canvass 1 took occa-
sion from Monsignor Pres!on's political
letter to admonish him and other
ecclesiastical dignitaries of the grave
danger of repeating the folly and shame
of condemning scientific truth as re.
ligious heresy, a shame, q folly, of
which their predecessors had been
guilty in condemning Galileo and Car
penicus. 1t seems that they are fated
to repeat this crime and blunder and
add another to the many rea.
sons that have made men look upon
ecclesiastical authority as one of the
greatest foes of scientific progress, of
national development and of rational
liberty, and in large part hindrance
rather than help in the way of bring.
ing to the whole world the light and the
purity and the comfort that comes from
the teachings and the minis!ration of
Christ.
(Signed) EDWARD McGLyNN.
Archbishop Corrigan sailed for Hav.
ana this afternoon before DR., McGlyna's =
answer was made public.
! INDIANA REPUBLICANS.